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From: cheryl@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (cheryl)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Accuracy In Academia (AIA)
Message-ID: <1121@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 16:30:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 29 16:30:36 1986
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>In article <530@meccts.UUCP> mvs@meccts.UUCP (Michael V. Stein) writes:
>> 
>> Actually I haven't been very impressed with the nature of this whole
>> debate.  On one hand, I see the proponents of AIA who claim it will
>> stop "DISINFORMATION".  Yet I haven't seen any messages really defining
>> academic disinformation.  

Let me give you some examples:

To claim that Nicaragua is a South American Dictatorship is DISINFORMATION.

To claim that the Sandinistas are Communists is DISINFORMATION.

To claim that the Minnesota National Guard's C-140's are flying
"desks and pencils on purely diplomatic missions" to Hondouran
airstrips right next to the Nicaraguan border is DISINFORMATION.
(Those "desks and pencils" somehow resemble tanks and helicopters.  
Strange.)

To claim that the Death Squads have stopped operating in El Salvador
is DISINFORMATION.  To claim that Americans never had anything to
do with helping to arm, train, advise and direct the Death Squads
is DISINFORMATION. 

To claim that Pinochet's Chile is a "Democracy" just because it
receives American foreign aid is DISINFORMATION.